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Old 08-20-2015, 10:23 AM
 
Location: Texas
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“Germany is turning black,” Hempel said, citing the massive influx of refugees from Africa and the Middle East. “Soon only dark-skinned people will be living here. It can’t go on like this. . . . And these days, everybody puts you in a Nazi corner just for voicing your opinion.”
Sounds familiar. White flight hasn't started yet I suppose.

 
Old 08-20-2015, 10:30 AM
 
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Why are you all harping on muslims when the OP actually posted an article about Germans going out and targeting refugees by attacking them and those who are not hateful toward refugees. From the article:

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In a gesture of German goodwill, the administration in this medieval city leased a newly renovated apartment building here to humanely — even comfortably — house dozens of desperate *asylum-seekers. The newcomers from Syria and other war-
ravaged nations would enjoy freshly redone floors, cute balconies and shiny, modern appliances in a cheerful building near a timber-framed pub. Then Meissen’s goodwill went up in smoke.
On a cool night six weeks ago, suspected right-wing arsonists struck the building, scorching its interior and rendering it uninhabitable days before the *asylum-seekers were to move in
.
Do you condone the behavior above?

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The acts include an ugly spate of arson targeting refugee centers as well as physical attacks on refugees themselves
Do you condone the acts described above?

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“In east Germany, we have had 25 years of very powerful influence by neo-Nazi culture. Few immigrants were going there out of fear of being threatened,”
Do you think that people being threatened based on their appearance and/or religion should be condoned?

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Many neighbors who live near the burned refugee center are blaming not the arsonists but the building’s owner — local developer Ingolf Brumm — for having agreed to turn it into a shelter.
Do you believe that arsonist who set the fire are at fault or the owner who was planning to assist refugees?

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After Brumm publicly denounced the fire, he and his family received death threats and were viciously harassed online. To protect him, police began patrolling his nearby home office. Recently arrived refugees already living in Meissen have also become targets. One Syrian dentist who was assigned to live in Meissen and arrived Aug. 1 said he has had stones thrown at his apartment door, glue put in his lock and obscenities hurled at him from the street.
Do you think the behaviors described above should be condoned or are warranted?

FWIW, please note the Syrian is a dentist i.e. a professional class person not some dirty, unkempt muslim terrorist.

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One neighbor shedding no tears over the torching is Wolfgang Hempel, 65, a retired electrician who lives adjacent to the attacked building. Referring to Brumm, Hempel said he “hates his guts” for leasing the building to the city for a refugee center.


“Germany is turning black,” Hempel said, citing the massive influx of refugees from Africa and the Middle East. “Soon only dark-skinned people will be living here. It can’t go on like this. . . . And these days, everybody puts you in a Nazi corner just for voicing your opinion.”
Do you really believe that Germany will "turn black" from immigration? Or that the comments above are warranted in regards to him despising someone who wanted to help both refugees and the government with their plan of assimilating refugees into German society?

People, you all need to read the OP link. It is disturbing that Germans are attacking refugees and people who are assisting them. All of this vile is not built on them being "muslims." See the comment from the man above. It is because they are not white. It is racism and racism is not a "leftist" or IMO a "right" policy. It is disturbing and you all trying to make excuses for people who are terrorizing (via arson and violence) or verbally threatening or harrasing people based on their skin color have something wrong with you just like something in wrong with those particular people in Germany.
 
Old 08-20-2015, 10:43 AM
 
Location: Jamestown, NY
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Who cares if this destroys a beautiful, peaceful culture. As long as the liberal idiots win.
The Germans are a "beautiful, peaceful culture"??? In what alternative universe do you live?
 
Old 08-20-2015, 10:46 AM
 
Location: Jamestown, NY
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This is an odd comment. So many people here in the US believe Africans to be "superior" to black Americans as they have more of a "culture" of hard work and sacrifice and education.

Now when another country is complaining about their African refugees and immigrants, you jump on a bandwagon of bashing them and accusing them of being subhuman and inferior to you as a white person and to Germans in general. While Germans are going around setting fire to buildings and attacking these people for no reason except, they like you, see these people as inferior to them and don't care about other people's lives or property.

And FWIW, for many years Germany was experiencing a decline in birthrate, as was France and many other Western European countries and many people encourage immigration based on building population in order to have future workers support the aging population in their extensive tax and benefits system. And Africans and Middle Eastern people are clean as well.
Well said!!!
 
Old 08-20-2015, 10:51 AM
 
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The Germans are a "beautiful, peaceful culture"??? In what alternative universe do you live?
What aspect of their culture do you not agree with?
 
Old 08-20-2015, 10:53 AM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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The Germans are a "beautiful, peaceful culture"??? In what alternative universe do you live?
I find relating modern-day Germans to Hitler and Nazis, as I have often seen done, is just as insulting and cruel as relating a Persian individual to Saddam Hussein.

Yes, German culture is a beautiful culture.
 
Old 08-20-2015, 10:54 AM
 
Location: Jamestown, NY
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Germans are worried not only about the new asylum seekers, but also about the growing numbers of other migrants entering Europe’s largest and strongest economy. Equally vexing to many is the lack of assimilation among a significant number of Muslim immigrants, some of whom came to Germany decades ago.

In the city of Wuppertal, 11 Muslims wearing the words "sharia police" on orange vests and these people warn the young partygoers that they were violating islamic law by drinking.

Some claim that because ww2, Germany now must be a place of acceptance and tolerance. This is b.s. Germany has always ALWAYS been a place of acceptance and tolerance. Regular Germans don't owe anything to anybody, especially for something happened such a long time ago.

Why can't they protect their OWN citizens and their own heritage? Sure there are skinheads and neo-Nazi groups in Germany, but they are everywhere in every country. These extreme people are in the minority.

Overwhelming majority of Germans love their country, they are not racist and they are not hateful people. Ask any non-white people how do they like Germany? Guaranteed majority of them love the country. This is a country with beautiful culture and rich history.

Germans just want to take control of their own country and feel safe again. It is not about racism.
Bull manure. It's racism plain and simple. It's also the same excuse the Nazis used against the Jews 80 years ago.
 
Old 08-20-2015, 10:55 AM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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Bull manure. It's racism plain and simple. It's also the same excuse the Nazis used against the Jews 80 years ago.
You are one angry person..

again, I find relating modern-day Germans to Hitler and Nazis, as I have often seen done, is just as insulting and cruel as relating a Persian individual to Saddam Hussein.

Try to be a little bit fair and balanced in order to be taken seriously.
 
Old 08-20-2015, 11:03 AM
 
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I personally know people who applied to German Universities in hope of finding a job and settling in Germany someday. I also think German culture and Western culture overall is wonderful.

I am an immigrant from a third world crap hole.

Linda can you please tell me which countries are better than Germany, I will duly pass it to the other third worlders.
 
Old 08-20-2015, 11:10 AM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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Kind reminder: skinhead and Neo-Nazis DO NOT represent regular Germans. Don't condemn the whole culture because of racists.
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